The fraud trial into the 2020 General and Regional Elections has been beset by numerous delays and on Thursday, Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo questioned whether some of the accused persons and parties were benefiting from preferential treatment from members of the judiciary. Jagdeo, the General Secretary of the governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), […]

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Following media reports of ITEL Guyana’s plan to cease operations locally, affecting more than 400 hundred workers, the Ministry of Labour has since engaged the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company. During an interview on Wednesday, Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton said his ministry is working with the call centre at Camp & Robb Streets, Georgetown, […]

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Director of Projects at the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) Marlon Daniels has said that within the next two to three years, new water distribution lines would be installed across the entire City, replacing the ones that were installed as way back as the 1930s. That process has commenced. He spoke to the News Room about […]

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Kaieteur News – For 2023, the Government of Guyana (GoG) had to pay the combined sum of $306 billion in income taxes for ExxonMobil Guyana Limited and its Stabroek Block partners, Hess and CNOOC according to the companies’ audited financial statements, while for the same period Guyana earned $336 billion from its oil. This arrangement […]

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Exxon’s new billboards misleading… Kaieteur News – Over the past few weeks, ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) started a new campaign, taking credit for training and preparing Guyanese for employment in the sector; however, the fine print in the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) paints a different picture. In an advertisement that appeared as recently as […]

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(BBC NEWS) The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says six of its employees have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school it runs in central Gaza. Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said a total of 18 people were killed in Wednesday’s strike on al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat refugee camp, which is […]

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–pave way for Guyana’s request for funding from US EXIM Bank to move forward CONSULTANTS representing the United States Export-Import (EXIM) Bank have completed their assessment of the Gas-to-Energy project at Wales, West Bank Demerara (WBD), thus paving the way for Guyana’s request for funding to move forward. General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party […]

–Minister Bharrat urges investors as Massy Gas Products commissions US$12M Air Separation Unit MASSY Gas Products (Guyana) Limited has commissioned a more than US$12 million Air Separation Unit (ASU) at its facility in Old Road, Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD), marking a momentous milestone in Guyana’s industrial landscape. The state-of-the-art unit, the first-of-its-kind in Guyana, […]

GENERAL Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo has called on Alliance for Change (AFC) leader Nigel Hughes to provide concrete evidence to support his claims of corruption within the PPP/C government. Dr. Jagdeo criticised Hughes for making broad accusations without presenting specific facts. “Today we talk about tendering and what’s going […]